New VZW HTC TP2 - Disappointed, Need Help, Multiple Areas

[trids]

Originally Posted by DLCPhoto

So - does anybody know what "Unlocking" the registry does on the TP2, and whether or not there is the potential for unanticipated "side-effects" or consequences?

I use Total Commander as my file browser, it includes an excellent on-device registry editor .. and is absolutely FREE!
http://www.ghisler.com/pocketpc.htm

[DLCPhoto]

Originally Posted by trids

I use Total Commander as my file browser, it includes an excellent on-device registry editor .. and is absolutely FREE!
http://www.ghisler.com/pocketpc.htm

Thanks - otheres have mentioned this tool as well. I've downloaded it and will check it out.

[thecushion77]

Originally Posted by DLCPhoto

Interesting to have dug up this several month old thread, posted very early on in my TP2/WM experience. Much has changed since then, and I appreciate the recent comments and suggestions posted above.

I am now much happier with my TP2, and have implemented many of the suggestions above.

I still use the stock Opera, but have tweaked Opera.ini to be able to click links more readily without having to zoom in the vast majority of the time, increase the number of tabs, etc. I was not aware of the Registry tweak to improve screen sensitivity - I'll have to play around with that one for sure.

I'm back to using TF3D and have managed to adapt it to my liking overall. I am interested in trying Mobile Shell, but apparently it "breaks" some functioning in the Contacts. When they fix that, I'll probably give it a try.

I've also figured out most of the other difficulties, and you're all correct - there are often multiple ways to do things, and it's been a good learning experience exploring and figuring them all out.

I've added SkyFire for flash sites (the new version is much improved), Garmin XT for GPS, multiple free games, been playing with GoToMyPC PocketView which is pretty slick, really like the way Contacts are integrated with Outlook, can use Facebook photos, it has a much more useable PDF viewer than the TX ever did, the built-in RSS app works quite well for my limited needs and provides quick access to certain Podcasts I like to follow, the keyboard is quite good, Select Radio is awesome, WMWiFi Router really comes in handy at times, Skype enabled me to call home for virtually free via WiFi when in Peru, the integration of Google Maps and Bing with GPS and calling is extremely useful, etc.

There are still aspects of the Palm interface that I miss, but overall, the TP2 comes incredibly close to being a practical laptop replacement that I can carry in my pocket and also make calls with. Not perfect, but close enough for now anyway.

Where did you get the free games? I am a new TP2 owner too!

[DLCPhoto]

Originally Posted by thecushion77

Where did you get the free games? I am a new TP2 owner too!

I found quite a few here:

http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-...me-3-date.html

You can also just google for free ppc or windows mobile games.

[alacazaba]

TP2 blows majorly compared to PALM as far as contact management and user interface goes. Given that I'm stuck with the TP2 for a while until I find a suitable replacement, I'm seriously considering lugging my old treo around because the TP2 sucks so badly at contact management. With the TP2, it takes forever to just deal with the phone and unobvious and paltry menu/software arrangements - both in TF3 and Winmo6. What's worse is that it's like you're juggling two interfaces - and, in fact, you really are. Hats off to the idiots that run MS and the idiots at HTC who listen to the idiots who run MS that created the Frankenphone.

Aside from minor annoyances like not even being able to reference recently used email addresses when composing emails, or a raft of problems with Outlook and MS myphone, you are entreated to a nightmare of inoperability. I mean, are you serious, TWO INTERFACES!!?? And neither of them works well enough to stand on it's own! This is utterly ridiculous in the smartphone/handheld world whose main selling points over lugging a heavy laptop around were always meant to be ease of use and speed.

As for the TP2 community, I haven't found anything suitable cab wise to plug the gaping holes in usability with this POS or even a decent website pushing good software in a comprehensive fashion. For chrissakes, why don't you just rename the phone, "the hacky hodge podge"?? For a business phone, the TP2 learning curve sure eats a lot of time just trying to get basic functionality that you can learn in about 2 minutes on a TREO. That's time which I really don't have, Windowsdummies. PDA must mean "pretty damn awful" up in Redmond, WA.

Sadly, I wasn't that impressed with the PRE because of my big fingers so I settled on the TP2. As soon as something a little faster comes out with a hard keyboard and a wifi hack, I'm dumping this piece o' crap. I laugh in frustration when I see Balmer the schmuck out there pushing Windows 7 some sort of windows phone salvation. As for MS, I hope they fall off a cliff and rot, frankly. Activesync? WHAT A JOKE! You, too, HTC, rot in PDA purgatory for your grade school TF3 interface and pushing phones on the public with this tepid, sputtering phone OS known as Windows mobile.

my 2 cents...and I am majorly let down by this phone for which I shelled out more than a few hundred...

My suggestion? Just put up with the TP2 until you can dump it for something better, which I suspect won't be hard to do soon. Thank god for the economy being down or else I would have been reamed a new one by the weak link in my business operations that the TP2 is...

[physicsguy]

Originally Posted by alacazaba

TP2 blows majorly compared to PALM as far as contact management and user interface goes. Given that I'm stuck with the TP2 for a while until I find a suitable replacement, I'm seriously considering lugging my old treo around because the TP2 sucks so badly at contact management. With the TP2, it takes forever to just deal with the phone and unobvious and paltry menu/software arrangements - both in TF3 and Winmo6. What's worse is that it's like you're juggling two interfaces - and, in fact, you really are. Hats off to the idiots that run MS and the idiots at HTC who listen to the idiots who run MS that created the Frankenphone.

Aside from minor annoyances like not even being able to reference recently used email addresses when composing emails, or a raft of problems with Outlook and MS myphone, you are entreated to a nightmare of inoperability. I mean, are you serious, TWO INTERFACES!!?? And neither of them works well enough to stand on it's own! This is utterly ridiculous in the smartphone/handheld world whose main selling points over lugging a heavy laptop around were always meant to be ease of use and speed.

As for the TP2 community, I haven't found anything suitable cab wise to plug the gaping holes in usability with this POS or even a decent website pushing good software in a comprehensive fashion. For chrissakes, why don't you just rename the phone, "the hacky hodge podge"?? For a business phone, the TP2 learning curve sure eats a lot of time just trying to get basic functionality that you can learn in about 2 minutes on a TREO. That's time which I really don't have, Windowsdummies. PDA must mean "pretty damn awful" up in Redmond, WA.

Sadly, I wasn't that impressed with the PRE because of my big fingers so I settled on the TP2. As soon as something a little faster comes out with a hard keyboard and a wifi hack, I'm dumping this piece o' crap. I laugh in frustration when I see Balmer the schmuck out there pushing Windows 7 some sort of windows phone salvation. As for MS, I hope they fall off a cliff and rot, frankly. Activesync? WHAT A JOKE! You, too, HTC, rot in PDA purgatory for your grade school TF3 interface and pushing phones on the public with this tepid, sputtering phone OS known as Windows mobile.

my 2 cents...and I am majorly let down by this phone for which I shelled out more than a few hundred...

My suggestion? Just put up with the TP2 until you can dump it for something better, which I suspect won't be hard to do soon. Thank god for the economy being down or else I would have been reamed a new one by the weak link in my business operations that the TP2 is...

I have never used a Palm device so I honestly don't know what you are looking for but I have found that Pocket Informant works very will as my calendar and contact program. I have found that the titanium interface is more useful (for me) than Sense/TF3d. You might also want to try SPB Mobile Shell.

MyPhone is a back up program and Outlook is an email program so I don't really know what you mean by them doing the same thing.

[gcianc]

First thing to do with any WM device is turn off TF3 & use titanium. The TP2 will work much, much better.... less delays, more free RAM, better performance and more consistancy. Install reStart & other start menu tweaks to setup start menu to your liking.

Contact lookup/tweaks is dated but does work fine & can handle many (thousands) of contacts. Obviously contact MANAGEMENT is better done from a PC and you can wireless sync anyways so that is moot. Palm or iPhone won't change that fact really.

I can see why some (small percent) of users would want a Palm with it's clumsy hardware keyboard like a modern blackberry but each smartphone is limited in it's own way.

Originally Posted by alacazaba

TP2 blows majorly compared to PALM as far as contact management and user interface goes. Given that I'm stuck with the TP2 for a while until I find a suitable replacement, I'm seriously considering lugging my old treo around because the TP2 sucks so badly at contact management. With the TP2, it takes forever to just deal with the phone and unobvious and paltry menu/software arrangements - both in TF3 and Winmo6. What's worse is that it's like you're juggling two interfaces - and, in fact, you really are. Hats off to the idiots that run MS and the idiots at HTC who listen to the idiots who run MS that created the Frankenphone.

Aside from minor annoyances like not even being able to reference recently used email addresses when composing emails, or a raft of problems with Outlook and MS myphone, you are entreated to a nightmare of inoperability. I mean, are you serious, TWO INTERFACES!!?? And neither of them works well enough to stand on it's own! This is utterly ridiculous in the smartphone/handheld world whose main selling points over lugging a heavy laptop around were always meant to be ease of use and speed.

As for the TP2 community, I haven't found anything suitable cab wise to plug the gaping holes in usability with this POS or even a decent website pushing good software in a comprehensive fashion. For chrissakes, why don't you just rename the phone, "the hacky hodge podge"?? For a business phone, the TP2 learning curve sure eats a lot of time just trying to get basic functionality that you can learn in about 2 minutes on a TREO. That's time which I really don't have, Windowsdummies. PDA must mean "pretty damn awful" up in Redmond, WA.

Sadly, I wasn't that impressed with the PRE because of my big fingers so I settled on the TP2. As soon as something a little faster comes out with a hard keyboard and a wifi hack, I'm dumping this piece o' crap. I laugh in frustration when I see Balmer the schmuck out there pushing Windows 7 some sort of windows phone salvation. As for MS, I hope they fall off a cliff and rot, frankly. Activesync? WHAT A JOKE! You, too, HTC, rot in PDA purgatory for your grade school TF3 interface and pushing phones on the public with this tepid, sputtering phone OS known as Windows mobile.

my 2 cents...and I am majorly let down by this phone for which I shelled out more than a few hundred...

My suggestion? Just put up with the TP2 until you can dump it for something better, which I suspect won't be hard to do soon. Thank god for the economy being down or else I would have been reamed a new one by the weak link in my business operations that the TP2 is...